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Ask HN: digital IP startups? 
Anyone part of, or know, a start-up that is doing digital IP? Like creating "soft core" modules using HDL (and possibly "hard cores" by doing physical design) and then selling/licensing the designs?
Any advice for someone interested in this field? What would you say are good niche opportunities? Maybe trying to create a processor/ISA to compete with ARM for smartphones wouldn't be a good start haha.

Cheers
My Enthusiasm for Windows 8
I love Literature as well as JavaScript, too. Here is a literary JavaScript post that is a fun read:
http://javascriptissexy.com/javascript-is-super-sexy/
Right now, you can either be paid through PayPal or be mailed a check. We'll have ACH very soon. If you have other suggestions, we're all ears!
It's a SLA, which typically don't come with laptops.

Video game consoles are similar - MS won't allow you access to the Xbox Live service if you've modded your hardware or installed different firmware.

Verizon doesn't care what you do with your phone, but they say that you can't get their cell phone service unless you run the device the way they want you to.
What about for jobs where research skills are specifically necessary, like in corporate science and technology labs? Do the bigcorps find more value in hiring an undergrad and providing them training on how to do research?
OCHA humanitarian icons (or, strategy game UI elements)
TL;DR; If you have the talent to do the sort of work these sorts of services require, then you have the ability to do it without them.

Just my two cents here (with the caveat I could be talking out of my behind since I don't know these people), but I'd discourage anyone considering a career in freelance design/development from using these sorts of services.

The hardest part of making a long term go at this sort of work is learning how to sell yourself and having the hard discussions about business, money, and commitments. Using these sorts of services rob you of that experience, and your working relationship ends up being more employee than independent, but without the hard fought protections employees deserve.

What these services promise you is high quality projects, and an escrow service for getting paid. You can, and should, set these sorts of protections yourself. If you are going to try out these sorts of services as training wheels, be sure to carefully read anything they have you sign, and make sure it could never be used to impact your future, 100% independent career.
There is the field of Behavorial Finance, which assumes everyone isn't rational.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_finance

I would have gotten a PHD in Finance focusing on behavioral finance 12 years ago that but at the time I would have been poorly received and unlikely to get tenure since I was undermining the central supports of the entire field.
Thousands of sites defaced by Bangladeshi hackers to protest against movie
Qworum is a revolutionary interactive service tech for building modular webapps
ITunes Match: Why Does Apple Hate Its Own Product?
Ask HN: What are the colors of "productive" and "leisure"?
Im writing an app that tracks the times when you are productive and when you are lazy. It has 2 states that I want to represent by color: "productive" and "leisure". Which colors would you assign to these two states?
Since Kinvey posted this here: I can't stand the pricing model of Kinvey, at all.

Charging 'per active user' where an 'active user' is defined as a user who makes a single request per month is insane. Nearly every other provider charges on a volume request basis (i.e, 8 million calls per month). I use BaaS platforms in some of my apps, and I can't think of a single scenario for me where Kinvey is cheaper. And I guess this would be fine if there was some clear advantage for using Kinvey, but I just don't see it!
Me too! Too bad it's only Metal, sometimes you need a break from Slayer to hear some RZA.
Is there any reason you're not naming the business in your ad?

While I'm writing, could I convince you to share some sort of post-mortem afterwards? I've off an on thought about doing what you're trying right now, and I love to hear what did or didn't work for you.
I find my HackerNode app is a much more fulfilling experience.
$40/month for a membership will turn into $40/month for rent
For the Love of Innovation, Stop Brainstorming
That was my first thought too but the speed at which they appear makes it seem unlikely (I know very little about this stuff though).
> I suspect that depends upon the degree to which someone is able to compartmentalize and multi-task.

Well yes, it depends on your ability to compartmentalize. The problem is that it depends on your friends' and family's ability to compartmentalize just as much. I know I would be able to handle my wife complaining about my work and keep that out of my personal life. I have much less faith that if I had to sit down and have a "serious talk" with my brother, he wouldn't hold anything against me personally.

When relationships are on the line, it's not all about you. What might not faze you, might still throw a wrench into things for other people, and the end result is just as damaging.
Google CIO's IT advice: Let users pick their own hardware and software
On that note, has anybody heard of any data or estimates on the proportion of Bitcoin mining that is done with botnets? I keep hearing that a large proportion of the bigger botnets in the world are being used to mine Bitcoins (when they aren't being leased out for DDoS attacks).

That changes the economic dynamic since the cost of mining is the cost of assembling the botnet (ie. cheap)
10%! Whoa! That's insane. For the scale of projects I do as a freelancer, I'd be paying you about $3000-$5000 per project. Which is insanity for jobs board with an escrow service.
Enumerator: Ruby's Versatile Enumerator
Small Kohana module to calculate USPS shipping rate
A very small, buggy but lovely Kohana module to calculate shipping rate for USPS. It supports both of JSON and JSONP. I planned to add FedEx and UPS too. Then we can put it on http://sipy.pagodabox.com
I hope somebody can help on FedEx and UPS.
Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Music Industry
History, as Recorded on Twitter, is Disappearing from the Web
The reason is mostly because the business makes a surprising amount of money for what it does. In general when I ask friends/family how much they think it makes, they say, "I don't know, a few thousand per year." And these are people IN the tech industry. I'd like to keep the much more profitable truth a bit quiet, except from interested parties.

I'd consider doing a post-mortem if the buyer would allow it. If not, I can always do an anonymous one.
Debian on a tablet.
RIP Bill_Nye_Tho: Creator of Twitter’s Favorite Parody Account Says He’s Done
Another win for NYC tech.
I'm curious to know what the difference this service and the one oDesk provides? The %-cut is the same, minus the more personal service from matchist, I'm assuming.

The site doesn't explain the vetting process, which is something that I'm also curious about.
I have been happily using Yahoo's geocoding service, with google coded as a backup service. My application doesn't require speed, so I don't know how it stacks up against google in that regard. I have run into a couple of cases where yahoo's street data was not as fresh as google's.
Is Oracle squeezing the MySQL lemon too hard?
Career Suicide versus Startup Suicide
If you guys are writing post-mortem blog posts due to running out of disk space, your solution should really be to hire a sysadmin or ops-focused engineer. Disk-related issues are among the easiest to diagnose, so take this experience as a wake-up call that your current team is in over your heads. If you can't afford a sysadmin or don't want to bring that kind of talent in-house, you can try using a hosted solution. But make sure to really test out different hosted services before committing to one, since they can vary tremendously in terms of quality and reliability.
Yes, X.25 is a completely separate protocol and so is CYCLADES, but they were both early packet switched networks that were influential in the development in the modern day Internet just like ARPANET. The Internet is not ARPANET, but of all the other "internets", it owes the most to ARPANET (built in the US, based off British design). Either way, there is no such thing as an "American Internet". There is just "the Internet".
Is there a physical inventory involved?
I wonder how many long time ACs there are. I think I started reading /. In mid 1998 but for some reason never got around to creating an account. I checked it almost every day up until I found HN.
Computer science and JavaScript: Merge sort
Is this a serious question ?
In addition to what chrisbroadfoot said, 10K requests for $5? In what bizarro world is that a problem, given the service you are receiving?
This is extremely misleading, perhaps one of the most misleading crowdfunding projects I've seen.

They almost always use present tense which makes it seem like everything already exists. From the campaign:

"Located in New York City, Hackert0wn is an epicenter for innovation and education to advance green technology and sustainability."

NO IT'S NOT! It's an idea in 4 peoples' minds. It doesn't exist so you can't make claims about it like this.

Almost all of the photos they show are of related tech and have no bearing on this project. Do they actually have permission to use those photos? Some look like they're taken directly from product manufacturers and other copyright protected sources.

No wonder they're using indiegogo instead of Kickstarter. Kickstart would never let them get away with this.
Great post. Consider the following changes to the Greek mapping to be consistent with Greek keyboards and the "greek" input mode in Emacs:

q Q: ; :
w W: ς Σ
y Y: υ Υ
u U: θ Θ
j J: ξ Ξ
x X: χ Χ
c C: ψ Ψ
v V: ω Ω
Introduction to Go Debugging with GDB
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0910/Scientists-fear-C...
Feels like trying to hammer a nail with a screwdriver.
Can you say what kind of users you serve, and whether your revenue derives from ads or freemium or other paid offering?
Sure, objectivity is good, but often times difficult decisions have no objectively clear optimal path (eg. there are many good arguments to be made for why MZ should not be replaced, and even time will only evaluate a single path). Emotion has been a useful (though admittedly fallible) cognitive shortcut for our species in those situations.
There are a lot of solutions that range from "solve this immediate problem now with minimal work by me" to "solve this problem and a host of problems that I don't have now but will have in the future". The trick is figuring out where to be on the spectrum.

For example, perhaps the simplest solution would be to cron a script that checks 'df' output and sends an email as soon as you hit some reasonable threshold.

More complex but significantly more powerful is running something along the lines of Nagios to monitor not only disk usage, but a plethora of other systems level checks.

Once that road is walked it's not a big leap to start monitoring the application itself.

Why stop there? If you've got your metrics system (like Graphite) up and running, you can pull in raw metrics and trend your disk usage over time. Write a script that pulls in the raw data (add rawData=true to your parameters in Graphite) and then set thresholds on that. Have Graphite take the standard deviation of your disk metric and now you're alerting not only on an absolute threshold, but monitoring for sudden spikes in activity.

You may also very well be able to get "more complex" without your own infrastructure ... with the tradeoff being money and relying on 3rd party SaaS. There are pros and cons involved here.

Circle back, for a second, though. Putting in a complex solution that gives you the kitchen sink requires time and money. Nagios and Graphite are adding a layer of complexity that may be totally overblown for your needs at the moment. SaaS might not fit the bill. Right now may NOT be the time to go all crazy. So start simple. Get that cron job in place today, gain a little piece of mind, and then figure out what your next steps should be.
At a Startup, You Can't Have Two CEOs
Yes it is a serious question.
Posting multiple times is not a reliable way to get useful comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605964
Easter eggs FTW!
Mogreet takes on Twilio, one MMS at a time
"You know their strengths and weaknesses"

YES. This is why working with my brother is awesome. We know exactly which work to pass off to each other. There's never any "I could have done that better" competition or awkwardness.
Thanks. I suggest SWIFT - http://www.swift.com - as another option - if you also plan to offer this to people (developers and/or consumers (of developer's work) outside the US. It's been around for ever, and is reliable and used by zillions of businesses worldwide. I've used it myself with no issues.
Objective-C Passes C++, Now 3rd Most Popular Language on TIOBE
Facebook testing Promoted Posts in the US
10% fee so that I don't have to deal with non-payment issues or even finding new projects would be game-changing for quite a few freelancers out there. But to do this, two major hurdles must be accomplished:

1) Matchist needs to show that they can do this. Waiting for developers to take a leap of faith is a fools game. Show me how you intend to ensure prompt payment, filter out cheap clients, and consistently provide work, and I would gladly pay as high as a 30% fee. But if you expect people to trust a new company out of the blue, all you will get is developers with no other options, and chances are there is a reason they have no other options.

2) Matchist needs to give the clients a way to ensure that they will receive quality work. The clients seeking the work are the ones that can hang themselves out to dry using this system, so what value does it add for them? If you can show only the best freelancers available are picked, chances are very good there will be a line out the proverbial door to use your service. But this is a reputation that needs to be built or clearly explained
Curiosity Rover Joins Foursquare, Checks in From Mars
I could take it off your hands but I don't have any money to actually buy it. What if you keep 80% of the income and I take only 20% and all the expenses? Seems like a good deal, no hassle and you keep income for years to come!
Does this site make money by charging users OR is it ad based ?
I’m not trolling. Of course the App Store is technically a market – just like my local supermarket is a market – but both are not free markets and no one would ever have the crazy idea of calling my local supermarket anti-competetive.

That’s the connection you are missing. You have to explain why, in your view, every market has to be a free market (or, at least, why the App Store should be a free market).

I think your view that the App Store has to be a free market is pretty crazy. I cannot understand it. I really do not understand how anti-competitveness figures into this.

Apple is one of many players in the mobile space, far from the largest. In light of that I really don’t see why they have to offer a free and open market. Why shouldn’t they be free to sell or not sell whatever they want?

–

P.S. I hate it when people say that someone is trolling just because they do not agree. That is so lazy and cheap.
The Reason I’m Closing Down Our Facebook Fan Page
Those are all great points, but I want to differentiate matchist from "these sorts of services." We focus on making quality connections to people you would otherwise not meet (whether geographic barriers, time limits, etc). Services in the past have worked on automating these interactions and end up in a price war towards the bottom: we get to know devs as people and only give them projects they would pick themselves. We want to streamline freelance so that freelancers do what they do best instead of being in meetings all day.
Cash Money Millionaires: RapGenius Raises $15 Million from Andreessen Horowitz
Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile/MetroPCS proposed merger
Psych Hack: How anyone can get ahead by spending 2 minutes in the bathroom
I have the happy hacking keyboard professional 2. It's fantastic. The reason the [fn] key is positioned off, and it's hard to get at the arrow keys, is because the HHKB was specifically designed to make it hard to use the arrow keys, as they are a curse. (stay on Home Row). There are alternatives, hjkl for vim and or CONTROL-... for emacs dudes and dudettes.
may be more recently. But certainly not as much as willis, stathom etc.
I think you misread what I said.

It was that IF I was going to spend money on a mapping API I would rather use it to improve an open platform. Especially for something as key as mapping.
Deutsche Telekom in Talks to Merge T-Mobile With MetroPCS
RapGenius is a nice site for viewing lyrics and understanding obscure (to you) references. But a tally sheet of line-by-line references is not really an "explanation" of a rap/song/poem. Literary allusion has a long history and it can deepen the intellectual/emotional experience of a work, but people can get too obsessed with understanding "references" while missing the forest from the trees.

It's great the site isn't limited to rap, though. No one has tackled explaining Howl yet :) http://rapgenius.com/Alan-ginsberg-howl-lyrics
For me productive is either green or dark blue. I don't put leisure in Klok so it doesn't have a colour.
I guess "Spray and pray" strategy at works. Now if Rap Genius can figure out how to steer clear of potential copyright violations and come up with a revenue model, they could be successful.
While we're discussing relevant recommendations, I'll humbly chip in with my 2 cents: Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime, a progressive metal concept album heavily influenced by 1984. Probably not a timeless masterpiece like 1984 and Brave New World if you just consider the plot; but considered a masterpiece in its genre, probably worthy of the compliment if you also consider the amazing music and plot devices.
Slashdot user #527 here. I feel as similarly as an outsider can to Taco's feelings. Slashdot did a lot to shape what I think of as a real community, both on and offline. It was based around news but there were also fun things like all the Natalie Portman's grits stuff that not only didn't detract, it added to the feeling. HN is a great discussion place but there's very little "frivolous" stuff that really makes a friendly community. It'll never really be replaced.
If I shave my head, I would look like a round potato. Forget about anything related to masculinity, machoness etc. ppl just laugh at me.
Fat is probably a good predictor for lack of ambition. So I would say it lowers chances to get funded.
Truly. Slashdot was on of the great influences on my young self (I was 13 when I signed up in 1998) and I checked it daily for over a decade. I'd probably not be the nerd I am today if it had never existed!
From my understanding you only get charged when accessing the map API server side. If you use the JS API in the client's browser the requests don't count against your quota. Google even suggests that your script can pass the information back to your server to be stored. Therefore, you can scale your user base without incurring high costs.
Remember that's 10K requests for $5 NOW. We could see it jump back to its original price at any time of Google's choosing which would have been $40.

But the 10K requests bit is arbitrary. My point is that it is not mostly free. It's not really even close to being free.
Great question. oDesk is great for a lot of things. But from our chats with freelance developers, they don't find oDesk great for finding quality clients worth the time and money to work with.

At matchist, we're focusing more on the vetting process and less on finding the cheapest developer around.
42% of US Internet Users Have a Facebook Account. For Twitter, It’s 16%
I have hired nearly all of my best friends (and even my girlfriend), and a large part of me regrets it; and yes: for the very reasons you describe (personal, not business).

I have had to fire friends, and I have had to negotiate with them. I actually have managed to keep these people as close friends, but it got really tough going at times. :(

The thing that got really really hard for me, though, is that I no longer really just have "friends" in the sense of "someone you can tell your problems to".

Here is an example: let's say work sucks, or things are going badly in some negotiation, or maybe you literally jut hate your job that day and feel like going off on a massive "I wish I could just quit all of this" rant.

It no longer works to do this with your friends: they now have both emotional and economic incentives to argue with you, become frustrated at your opinions, or, even worse, themselves feel bad about their own lives.

In the other direction, I often feel the need to avoid hanging out with some of the people I most cherish in my life, as I know if I do they will ask after the status of something I should have done, or start asking me questions about something they should do.

The result is that I'm, in a way, not even allowed to have work/life separation anymore: whereas I'm totally fine with the idea "this is just dinner, can we not talk about work?", it is nearly impossible to get everyone else to abide.

I therefore have actually been quite happy as some of my friends have gotten larger jobs elsewhere (I really was mostly doing extreme part-time hiring as contractors) as I now can interact with them "normally".

(Now, that all said, I also feel I have seen this "work better" in a previous company I was a part of, but I can't help but wonder if it was because I was the employee as opposed to the employer.)

(I don't really hear my friends complaining about this interaction, for example; that said, maybe they just wouldn't tell me, due to this very same underlying bug.)
Hey Joe, these are great points. As startup people, we all take risks on new services. Innovation would never work if people didn't take risks and only used what they were familiar with. You can look at the founders of the company and see that we have good experience: I'm an entrepreneur who's used to working with devs (founding member of FeeFighters) and my partner is a developer who used to be freelance and would have loved this service. We speak technical and understand the challenges. 2) We are working on building our reputation and will only be as good as our matches...especially in the beginning. I'd be happy to chat with you (or anyone) and clearly explain everything that goes into matching...it just all doesnt fit on a landing page!
You could go to an accounting firm that specializes in valuation for tech businesses. They could help value the business and leverage their network to find potential buyers.
The Objectivist viewpoint:

I will collaborate with the other hunters because I value their wellbeing and community and they can help me fulfil my own goals.

The altruist (in the Randian sense) viewpoint:

I will collaborate with the other hunters because the needs of the tribe supersede my own.
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Sta...
Google seem to like inventing things, they have people who create languages for a living (some of the creators of Java, that some of them are probably behind Dart) and they did some pretty amazing things, Go is a great language, I'm sure Dart will have a fan base, and who knows, it might catch up (in 2004 no one thought Ruby will be that popular, right?) Google went for their vision, Microsoft went for the practical.
I serve students in universities. The product cost they purchase is low (average product cost is less than $10), so they can afford it.

I sell actual services. No ads. No freemium.
The Pull Request for Designers